None but the righteous : a novel /
James, Chantal, 1985-
None but the righteous : a novel / Chantal James. - First hardcover edition. - x, 224 pages ; 22 cm
"In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escapes New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama, and from one young woman to another, as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known, he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him, guides him, and seizes possession of him." -- Jacket flap.
9781640094598 1640094598
2021001525
GBC1K0556 bnb
020408544 Uk
Christian saints--Fiction.
Spirit possession--Fiction.
Foster parents--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
None but the righteous : a novel / Chantal James. - First hardcover edition. - x, 224 pages ; 22 cm
"In seventeenth-century Peru, St. Martin de Porres was torn from his body after death. His bones were pillaged as relics, and his spirit was said to inhabit those bones. Four centuries later, amid the havoc of Hurricane Katrina, nineteen-year-old Ham escapes New Orleans with his only valued possession: a pendant handed down from his foster mother, Miss Pearl. There's something about the pendant that has always gripped him, and the curiosity of it has grown into a kind of comfort. When Ham finally embarks on a fraught journey back home, he seeks the answer to a question he cannot face: Is Miss Pearl still alive? Ham travels from Atlanta to rural Alabama, and from one young woman to another, as he evades the devastation that awaits him in New Orleans. Catching sight of a freedom he's never known, he must reclaim his body and mind from the spirit who watches over him, guides him, and seizes possession of him." -- Jacket flap.
9781640094598 1640094598
2021001525
GBC1K0556 bnb
020408544 Uk
Christian saints--Fiction.
Spirit possession--Fiction.
Foster parents--Fiction.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Fiction.
Psychological fiction.